Yesterday we decorated our tree.

I know there are fashions and trends in this as in everything, colour themes and such. We don’t do it the fashionable way. I buy pretty things of any kind, so what we have is an eclectic unfashionable mixture of everything, high and low.

There are hand-blown hand-painted glass baubles, and an enamelled egg from China, and a golden star with beads and sequins.

But there are also paper hearts that Ingrid and I have crafted, and felted ornaments (both store-bought and home-made), and things that simply tinkle nicely.

From my own childhood I have strong memories of an ornament in the shape of a little snowy house. There was another figure as well, maybe a Santa Claus? So I got a snow man and a Santa Claus for our tree as well.

Anything goes, as long as it makes us happy as we look at it.